Himal magazine’s Vivek Chibber examines the overwhelming influence that US universities have come to exercise over elite intellectual culture in India. Exploring how the academic circuit beneficiaries of corporate-sponsored think tanks that engendered neoliberal free-market fundamentalism have found a home in the halls of power in India, Chibber observes that the dominant [1] portals of ideas on the subcontinent now represent a new wave of domesticated academics—even when wearing a radical face.